Hot Air’s top 10 most commented posts in 2010

posted at 11:24 am on January 1, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Over the last week, I reviewed the 50 most viewed posts in 2010 for Hot Air — but which got the most comments? Just before imbibing prodigious amounts of alcohol, pita chips, and those weird hors d’oeuvres that people carry on platters at New Year’s Eve parties, our technical wizards and web masters produced one last list for 2010 — the ten most commented posts at Hot Air. The two lists don’t exactly match up, as you’ll see:

#2: SOTU open thread: Fightin’ president totally ready to fight or something – This was the headline from our open thread on Obama’s State of the Union speech a year ago, when Obama had large majorities in both chambers of Congress. Want to bet we’ll get the same pre-speech spin from the White House when Obama has to shake John Boehner’s hand instead of Nancy Pelosi’s on the dais? Kind of like how he’ll fight for those tax hikes in 2012 rather than, you know, now. Comment count: 3327.

And the #1 most commented post at Hot Air in 2010 is …

#1: Open thread: Obama health-care summit;Update: Video link added – And it wasn’t even close. This post got 5,355 comments, 60% more than its closest competitor. It had everything: a poll, some video, and an hours-long event with so much obvious spin and hypocrisy that it’s a wonder the site stayed up during the event. The poll results showed 47% of respondents had it pegged – the “summit” changed absolutely nothing about the bill.

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I hope there’s no more server crashes over Scott Brown again, after he lied about his DADT position. I’m hoping he’s toast in 2012. All the time, money and comments wasted because in the end, we got Martha Coakley lite.

Happy New Year all. It’s so nice to wake up and remember where your car is parked and not have a hangover.

HotAir is the first place I go to every day to find out what’s going on in the world. I love the fact that it always has lots of posts on different subjects throughout the day that are infused with plenty of sarcastic humor. To me, the writers and readers of HotAir represent an emerging grassroots movement of modern day Conservatives in the internet age who are as fair and objective as they are determined to fight for their beliefs.

I look forward to our continuing emporwerment over the course of this new decade.

Early last evening I had an unpleasant experience at a Greek market here in Queens, NY. I started a friendly conversation inquiring if Greeks celebrate Xmas on the same day as Catholics and Protestants, because I know that the Greek Easter is different. It’s a family business, and there’s one guy who’s a part owner who doesn’t actually work there. He’s an attorney who just hangs out there once in a while. So we start having a friendly conversation about religion and the differences between Chritianity and Judaism. At a certain point I made a very pro-American comment in relation to the idea of the Jews being “a light unto the nations”. I said that I thought that America was a light unto the nations, and that people hate Jews and America for many of the same reasons. He then starts saying that America is the biggest war monger in history. I kept my cool and tried to put an end to the conversation. Then he said that the only reason we invaded Iraq and have an adversarial relationship with Iran is to benefit Israel, because America is controlled by “influential Jews”. At that point, I told him that I wouldn’t be shopping at his store anymore and turned around and walked out.

It’s a great store, and I shopped there often, spending an average of $60 per month. But after all the anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric coming from the Left after 9/11, I feel that the days of genteel political debates are over. My attitude is “pick a side, damn it”, and be prepared to tell people off when they spout the same Leftist nonsense they’ve been spouting for decades with impunity.

I agree on the choosing sides issue, but you plainly said “It’s a family business, and there’s one guy who’s a part owner who doesn’t actually work there. He’s an attorney who just hangs out there once in a while.”
He is an attorney and that pretty much stipulates that he doesn’t have an original thought in his head. The family is aware that he is the skeleton in the closet. It would be better for you if the Greek family banned you from the market because they find refusing revenue to be the most insane thing to do – it will kill them to take your money.